[nojito]

>Twitch.tv is something that amazed me that it became so big.

Monetizing loneliness is how social media companies grow. twitch just has a strangle hold on a specific community that no one else thought of.

[selcuka]

To be fair they didn't think of it either. It was a natural pivot from justin.tv when they see that the majority of their users were using the platform to broadcast games.